Sophya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- soh-FEE-uh
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Sophya is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “wisdom”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Sophya mean?
Greek: respelling of Sophia
“wisdom”
Respelling of Sophia, from the Greek word for wisdom.
Is Sophya a girl's or a boy's name?
Sophya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sophya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #14,937among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 33% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Sophya, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,964th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 65 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.
2025 had the fewest girls named Sophya since it first appeared, in 2001.
Half of all the girls named Sophya in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Sophya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,590 |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,917 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 13 | #7,964 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,694 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,615 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,817 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,923 |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,914 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,923 |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,122 |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,900 |
| 2011 | 65 | #2,694 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,888 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,930 |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,359 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,566 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,354 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,133 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,259 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,202 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
Nicknames for Sophya
- Sophie 960 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Sophya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Solana Ximena Aria Alessia Amora Arya Alora Alaia Marigold Seraphina Sienna Aitana
Names related to Sophya
More Greek names
Luca Theodore George Theo Lucas Sofia Alexander Sebastian Penelope Phoebe Margot Luke Chloe Zoe Iris Maisie
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Sophya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sophya, updated 20 October 2026.